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REPORTABLE DISEASES in KANSAS for Health Care Providers, Hospitals, and Laboratories (K.S.A Reportable Diseases in Kansas 2002 Summary Kansas Department of Health and Environment Bureau of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention REPORTABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN KANSAS 2002 SUMMARY December, 2003 Kansas Department of Health and Environment Division of Health Bureau of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention 1000 S.W. Jackson Street, Suite 210 Topeka, Kansas 66612-1274 Telephone (785) 296-2951 Fax (785) 291-3775 Disease Reporting and Public Health Emergencies: Toll-Free Phone 1-877-427-7317 Toll-Free Fax 1-877-427-7318 Website: www.kdhe.state.ks.us NOTES for 2002 Annual summary This year’s report has been less timely due to staff turn over and the process of converting the report production from the original software programs to different programs. This conversion will allow for better compilation of all the components of the report and will allow for the project to continue in a more streamlined fashion regardless of the persons involved in it’s production. The guidelines stated in the introduction are followed for this report i.e. there are no rates and no graphics that stratify factors for diseases with counts less than 50. Where the counts are large enough, graphs and charts may present rates. Some graphs and charts are presented using counts only and not ratess. Small numbers are always of concern in depicting disease information as it is important to maintain concern for presentation of potentially individually identifiable data. This report has provided a foundation for a new approach to this document in the future. It is our desire to make this report a useful reference document and that will be evident in the upcoming 2003 Reportable Disease Summary. We welcome constructive suggestions and comments to that end. Thank you for your patience, it is our privilege to serve the citizens of Kansas. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION SECTION I DISEASE SUMMARIES Shaded diseases/conditions have 0 confirmed cases for 2002 and do not have summaries included. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) ……………………………………………… Amebiasis ………………………………………………………………………………………. Anthrax Botulism Brucellosis Campylobacter infections Chancroid Chlamydia trachomatis genital infection Cholera Cryptosporidiosis Diphtheria Ehrlichiosis Encephalitis, other infectious Diarrhea-causing Eschericia coli Giardiasis Gonorrhea Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Hemolytic uremic syndrome, postdiarrheal Hepatitis, viral (acute and chronic) Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Influenza Lead Poisoning - Pediatric Legionellosis Leprosy (Hansen’s disease) Listeriosis Lyme disease Malaria Measles (rubeola) Meningitis, other bacterial Meningococcocal disease Mumps Pertussis (whooping cough) Plague Poliomyelitis Psittacosis Q Fever Rabies, human and animal Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Rubella, including congenital rubella syndrome Salmonellosis, non-typhi Shigellosis Smallpox Streptococcal invasive disease Syphilis, including congenital syphilis Tetanus Toxic shock syndrome, streptococcal and staphylococcal Trichinosis Tuberculosis Tularemia Typhoid fever Varicella (chickenpox) deaths Viral hemorrhagic fever Yellow fever List of Diseases with no cases reported in 2002 Section II Special Projects Kansas bioterrorism preparedness and smallpox vaccination program West Nile Virus Retrospective Immunization Coverage Survey – 1998-1999 (School Year 2002-2003) Outbreak of Unexplained Respiratory Illness among Football Players Tuberculosis Among US-Born and Foreign-Born Persons – Kansas, 1998-2002 Section III Appendices Kansas Notifiable Disease form List of Reportable Diseases 2002 List of Reportable Diseases 2001 Kansas Map Kansas County Abbreviations Selected Diseases Chart Table 2. Reportable disease cases by year, kansas, 1993-2002 Table 3. Reportable disease cases by county References INTRODUCTION Purpose and format of this report This is the eleventh annual summary of reportable diseases by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). The purpose of this report is to provide useful information about notifiable infectious diseases in Kansas for health care providers, public health workers and policy makers. The report is divided into three sections. Section I presents summaries of 42 reportable diseases or conditions of public health importance in Kansas. Each of the diseases or conditions is presented with a brief overview of the disease or condition, laboratory tests commonly used for diagnosis, and the surveillance case definition. Tables and graphs supplement a summary of the disease in Kansas, including key statistics and trends. Only cases that meet a surveillance definition for a confirmed case and are reported before March 1, 2003 are presented here. Rates have been calculated from the U.S. Census Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics, Bridged 2002 Population Estimates. Rates by demographic characteristics and proportional changes from previous year are reported only then there were more that 50 cases of a disease reported in the state. Whenever possible, information about disease trends for the United States has been included for comparison with Kansas’s trends. If the total number of cases in the state was less than 5, then only limited demographic information is presented due to confidentiality concerns. Disease incidence of urban and non-urban counties has been included for many diseases. Urban counties are designated based upon population density. The five counties account for 50% of the population and include: Johnson, Wyandotte, Sedgwick, Shawnee, and Douglas. The remaining 100 counties in the state are aggregated into the “non-urban” category. Data concerning race and ethnicity are collected uniformly for most diseases as follows: American Indian/Alaskan Native (AIAN), Asian/pacific Islander (API), Black- African- American, and White. Also reported for some diseases are rates for Hispanic and non- Hispanic ethnicity. Section II includes special studies and reports. Section III provides reference documents including the reportable disease statutes, reportable diseases list and form, county abbreviations, county map of Kansas, summary tables of disease counts by county and disease counts of 10-year trend. Disease reporting in Kansas Selected dis3ases are reportable by law in Kansas by health care providers, laboratories and hospitals. Reports of infectious diseases are initially sent to local health departments. The local health departments are responsible for any investigation required and for instituting basic public health interventions such as administration of immune globulin to household contacts of a person with Hepatitis A or treatment of sexual contacts of a person with gonorrhea. Reports are also sent to the Bureau of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention (BEDP) in KDHE where they are reviewed. After reports have been entered into the Kansas integrated electronic disease surveillance system (also known as HAWK), weekly reports are transmitted to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention. There are specific reports required from states and these are accumulated for inclusion in the report published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Finally, CDC sends selected data to the World Health Organization. HAWK is a central, statewide database of reportable and selected non-reportable diseases and/or conditions. It can be accessed internally and remotely/on-line only by authorized public health officials. To protect restricted, confidential, health and clinical data of individuals, internal security structures are in place. Users can report disease occurrences efficiently, and generate summary statistics and reports that can assist them in evaluating public health efforts in their local areas. Surveillance for influenza is accomplished through a sentinel site surveillance method. During the 2002-2003 influenza season, the statewide physician-based active surveillance system included 21 sentinel sites including 9 family practices, 4 student health centers, 4 pediatricians, 3 long term care facilities and 1 military installation. To assess the possible amount and location of influenza activity, the number of patients seen with influenza-like illness (ILI), offices and clinics are contacted weekly by telephone starting in October 2002 and continuing through May 2003. These reports include number of persons with ILI by four age groups and total patient visits for all reasons. Ten sentinel sites agreed to continue to report ILI activity during the summer of 2003. State activity is reported to CDC weekly where it becomes part of the national influenza surveillance picture. Based on information submitted by each state to the CDC we are able to see where ILI is circulating thus the sentinel site surveillance plays an important role in monitoring influenza in the country. In collaboration with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), CDC publishes case definitions for public health surveillance, providing uniform criteria for reporting cases. This uniformity increases the specificity and comparability of diseases reported from different geographic regions. The CDC/CSTE surveillance case definitions combine clinical, laboratory, and epidemiologic criteria. The MMWR document of case definitions can be located on the web at the following address: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00047449.htm or using this reference - Case definitions for infectious conditions under public health surveillance. MMWR 1997; 46(no. RR-10). The
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